Tagged City of Death

Fans of the Doctor Who theme tune (and that’s most of us, I’m guessing!) will be chuffed to hear that some rather funky re-arrangements have surfaced on SoundCloud. One particularly interesting piece has been performed by a chap called Lins Honeyman, who has gone back to basics with a version that strongly evokes that swinging…

If you’re a fan of Gareth Roberts and Douglas Adams, loved the recent adaptation of Shada and have been longing for more, your dreams have been answered: Gareth Roberts is currently working on a novelisation of City of Death! @TygerWhoCame2T Oh, I feel like blabbing … I'm writing City Of Death right now, should be…

For anyone who likes the Bif Bang Pow retro figures range of Doctor Who figures, we have some good news. At the San Diego Comic Con there were a number of new items on display including several mock ups of as-yet-to-be-finished designs for characters from Doctor Who. There was the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors as…

The second swathe of letters-after-their-names have been awarded by the UK’s elite ruling class to those that have been deemed worthy of recognition for the head of state’s birthday – and among them are some actors with Doctor Who connections. So congratulations to Julian Glover, Claire Bloom, David Haig and Rowan Atkinson, all rewarded in…

Babblesphere is what some may describe as a perfect homage to the Fourth Doctor. In the middle of a volcanic inferno stands an exact replica of the palace of Versailles and inside that, there’s a mystery. The crumbling palace contains people that are slaves to technology; more importantly, they’re slaves to a futuristic social network….

Coming in December from AudioGo is the next hotly anticipated release in the Fourth Doctor television soundtrack CD series, City of Death. This 1979 classic story stars Tom Baker as the Doctor and Lalla Ward as Romana, and features linking narration between scenes from Ward herself. Whilst sightseeing in Paris, 1979, the Doctor and Romana…

As you may have already read at our sister site Cult Britannia, veteran character actor Peter Halliday has died, aged 87. Well-known for his starring appearance in the original TV adaptation of A for Andromeda in 1961 and its sequel The Andromeda Breakthrough, Halliday was a regular across British TV screens from the 1950s to…